On February 19, 1984, in an article in
The San Francisco Examiner, Dvorak listed the
mouse as one of many reasons
Apple Inc.'s
Macintosh computer might not be successful: "The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things."
[17][18] In 1987 he revisited the article and recanted, writing "The Mac mouse is great. I've been converted."
[19]
In 1985, following
Steve Jobs leaving Apple, Dvorak wrote, "Maybe when the smoke clears, we will have heard the last of Steve Jobs as guru, seer, visionary and hapless victim too ... He'll go the way of pet rock, electric carving knives, silly putty, Tiny Tim, and the three-tone paint job. Let's hope so."
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In the May 26, 1987 edition of PC Mag, Dvorak investigated the origin of the term
nerd, crediting and quoting
Theodor S. Geisel with coining the phrase in 1950 having "never heard the word before."
[21]
In his 2007 article for
MarketWatch regarding the
iPhone, Dvorak wrote "If [Apple's] smart, it will call the iPhone a 'reference design' and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures. [... ] It should do that immediately before it's too late."
[22]
Although he later admitted having been wrong about its success, he criticized Apple's
iPad when it first appeared in 2010, stating that it was no different from other previous tablets that had failed: "I cannot see it escaping the tablet computer dead zone any time soon."
[23]
Dvorak has mentioned in the past that he is a fan of
MorphOS[24] and used the
Video Toaster in its heyday.
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